Christmas Firetruck Parade 2025

by | Dec 9, 2025

    A small town tradition, the annual Christmas Firetruck Parade rolled through our neighborhood this evening. In years past the neighbors have gotten together around a bonfire out by the street to watch them go by, but that didn’t come together this...
Good Morning

Good Morning

by | Dec 7, 2025

    12/7/25 6:45 45F (7.2C) Damp, gray, still. An owl calls from the darkness somewhere beyond the front yard. A solitary duck quacks, trailing off to a quiet mutter. A desultory rain is falling, tap tapping the dead leaves like a metronome keeping time in...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

by | Nov 9, 2025

      11/9/25 Clear, sunny,  and warm. We decided to forage for cranberries and mushrooms instead of doing yard work, so Amy, Walter, and I piled into the car and headed north. We picked up Mike on the way and by noon, we were on the road to Trout Lake....
Halloween on the Big Lava Bed

Halloween on the Big Lava Bed

by | Nov 3, 2025

            It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day when Kent and I drove north into the Big Lava Bed. The road was rugged, just ruts worn into jagged rock, winding between collapsed lava tubes and stunted trees finally arriving  at a flat...
Good Morning

Good Morning

by | Oct 22, 2025

    10/22/25 6:00 39F (3.8C) I awoke to a still  morning, the sky full of glittering stars. It is so dark I had to feel  my way across the deck to the tub. Overhead  in the cold blackness, the twins watch Orion stalk his prey into the oaks. The dogs cavort...
Good Morning

Good Morning

by | Oct 20, 2025

  10/20/25 5:30 45F (7.2C) No wind.  Dark, cool, relatively dry.                                                        ...